I’ve talked about how I like a pleasant fairly immediate in my Home windows Terminal and made movies exhibiting intimately methods to do it. I’ve additionally labored with my buddy TooTallNate to place my real-time blood sugar right into a bash or PowerShell immediate, however this was again in 2017.
Now that I am “Workforce OhMyPosh” I’ve been which means to jot down a Nightscout “section” for my immediate. Nightscout is an open supply self-hosted (there are business hosts additionally like T1Pal) web site and API for distant show of real-time and near-real-time glucose readings for Diabetics like myself.
Since my physique has an energetic REST API the place I can simply do an HTTP GET (by way of curl or no matter) and see my blood sugar, it clearly belongs in a spot of honor, identical to my present Git Department!
Oh My Posh helps configurable “segments” and now there is a beta (nonetheless wants mmol and off readings help) Nightscout section you can setup in just some minutes!
This immediate works in ANY shell on ANY os! You are able to do this in zsh, PowerShell, Bash, no matter makes you content.
Here’s a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the section LIVE in Go.
In case you have an present OhMyPosh json config, you may simply add one other section like this. Be certain that your Nightscout URL features a safe Token or is public (as much as you). Word additionally that I setup “if/then” guidelines in my background_templates. These are non-obligatory and as much as you to vary to your style. I set my background colours to pink, yellow, inexperienced relying on sugar numbers. I even have a foreground template that’s not actually used, as you may see it all the time evaluates to black #000, but it surely reveals you the way you can set it to white textual content on a darker background in case you wished.
{
"sort": "nightscout",
"fashion": "diamond",
"foreground": "#ffffff",
"background": "#ff0000",
"background_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#FFFF00{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#FF0000{{ end }}",
"#00FF00"
],
"foreground_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"#000000"
],"leading_diamond": "",
"trailing_diamond": "uE0B0",
"properties": {
"url": "https://YOURNIGHTSCOUTAPP.herokuapp.com/api/v1/entries.json?rely=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN",
"http_timeout": 1500,
"template": " {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}"
}
},
By default we’ll solely exit and hit your Nightscout occasion each 5 min, solely when the immediate is repainted, and we’ll solely wait 1500ms earlier than giving up. You possibly can set that “http_timeout” (how lengthy earlier than we surrender) in case you really feel this slows you down. It’s going to be cached for five min so it is unlikely to b one thing you may discover. The advantage of this new OhMyPosh section over the earlier resolution is that it requires no extra companies/chron jobs and will be setup extraordinarily rapidly. Word additionally you can customise your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Subsequent I will hope to enhance the section with mmol help in addition to strikeout fashion for “stale” (over 15 min outdated) outcomes. You are additionally welcome to assist out by watching our YouTube and submitting a PR!
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About Scott
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, guide, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a guide creator.
